OK, tried again and Hyperterminal didn't lock up this time (what a piece of crap HT is, must find an alternative).

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q
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Player exited normally: 0
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# unmount /dev/hda4
bash: unmount: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# yn  unmount /dev/hdc4
bash: unmount: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# swapon /swapfile
Adding Swap: 16028k swap-space (priority -1)

empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda5 is mounted.

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda5: 1514/4096 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 9457/16384 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /dev/hda4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda4: 9289/304448 files (28.9% non-contiguous), 23484275/38965657 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hdc4 is mounted.

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hdc4: 112/76096 files (3.6% non-contiguous), 22219/9737280 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# swapoff /swapfile
empeg:/empeg/bin# sync
empeg:/empeg/bin#
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Just tried uploading a tune and it's doing the same thing. Bah. Back to the drawing board. Should I try a reinstallation of Ver 2.0 final player software d'ya think?

Edit: This was the log for the boot immediately after the procedure above...

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empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kernel.

Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v477 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Jul 13 14:42:45 EDT 2007

Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11

Checking for extra DRAM:

c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001

NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.

empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102438) 16MB DRAM

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k code, 20k reserved, 364k data, 4k init)

Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)

Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)

Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)

POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2

Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0

IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP

TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)

IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)

Starting kswapd v 1.5

SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled

ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART

ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART

ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART

Signature is 20706d65 'emp '

Found custom animation at offset 0x9bb84

Tuner: loopback=1, ID=-1

show_message("Hijack v477 by Mark Lord")

empeg display initialised.

empeg dsp audio initialised

empeg dsp mixer initialised

empeg dsp initialised

empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0

empeg remote control/panel button initialised.

empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012

empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005a80).

empeg RDS driver initialised

empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)

RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size

empeg single channel IDE

Probing primary interface...

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555

hda: HTS548040M9AT00, ATA DISK drive

hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive

ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6

hda: HTS548040M9AT00, 38154MB w/7877kB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63

hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63

empeg-flash driver initialized

smc chip id/revision 0x3349

smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])


SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:09:86

Partition check:

hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4

hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4

RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0

RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\done.

EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

change_root: old root has d_count=1

Trying to unmount old root ... okay

Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: GMT

Hijack: intercepting config.ini


/drive0/var/ttsclock: getopts: `Option
': not a valid identifier
Saved AC volume was 33
Volume=33
emptris v1.3 starting...
hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"

khttpd: listening on port 80

kftpd: listening on port 21

empacman running as pid 23
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000
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